Abdullah M.

Experience

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  Embassy of Canada | Ambassade du Canada

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2008

  Visa & Immigration Local Officer

  • Create and process immigration, refugee, family unification, and visitor applications.• Process, classify & respond to all types of correspondence received by the department.• Conduct student visa primary interviews then report/translate final observations to Visa officers.• Communicate with the universities and educational institutions to confirm the student’s status. • Verify and report on the authenticity of visa applications' supporting documents including immigration, financial, civil and educational documents. Show less

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  World Food Programme

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Communication & Educational Projects Officer

  • Coordinate and manage the finances and administration of the organization's media and educational projects.• Organize official meetings, issue meeting minutes, create PowerPoint decks, and create agenda items and other related project documents.• Issue financial documents like pay requests, contracts, task & financial authorizations, requests for proposals, invoices, and receipts.• Draft and distribute press releases to the media and organize press conferences for the organization's events. Show less

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  Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  PR & Media Projects Officer - British Embassy

  • Coordinate and manage the finance and administration responsibilities of the embassy's media and educational projects.• Organize official meetings, issue meeting minutes, create PowerPoint decks, and agenda items relating to project activities.• Issue pay requests, procurement contracts, task & financial authorizations, requests for proposals, invoices, and receipts.• Draft and distribute press releases to the media and organize press conferences for the embassy's events.

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  UNDP

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

  International Development Senior Project Officer

  • Provide financial and management support and services to UNDP media development projects.• Serve as a focal point connecting the UNDP with international donors and government partners.• Collect, classify and analyze projects' data, outcomes, results, and progress criteria to support management decisions.• Capture project's progress using monthly earned value reports.• Collect, analyze and report on effort management for resources and compile evidence and statistics for presentation• Process procurement, financial and budget transactions.• Track & manage the project's costs, actuals, and forecasts. Show less

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  SAMA Professional Services Inc

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Higher Education Project Management Consultant

  • Provide logistics, administrative, and financial support to the project team.• Develop financial and budget tracking reports• Facilitating efficient procurement strategy by cataloging documents and contracts and preparing requests for proposals (RFP)• Establish, manage and update personnel files.• Draft and Prepare regular project status reports, meeting briefings, meeting minutes, presentations and agenda entries.

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  The Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2018

  Project Management Administrator

  • Support the implementation and management of the Libya-North America Scholarship Program with national and international stockholders.• Provide financial, management support and services to the international education projects.• Assist the project management teams in achieving the project objectives and deadlines.• Collect, classify and analyze projects' data, outcomes, results, and progress criteria.• Serve as a point of contact linking the project team with partner governments and stakeholders.• Process educational institutions’ invoices and expenses.• Translate official documents, correspondences, memos, and decrees. Show less

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  Shared Services Canada | Services partagés Canada

  Jan 2018 - now

  Projects Planning & Engagement Dept • Coordinate and distribute tasks and responsibilities with another team members based on deadlines, work needs, training levels and time restrains• Build, maintain, and update the Data Center Services (DCS) databases and dashboards with information, data, names, comments, links and statistics on projects’ gates, versions and developments from various resouces.• Collect, classify and analyze process data to provide recommendations on outcomes, results, and progress criteria.• Collect, analyze and report on effort management pieces of evidence and statistics.• Attend SSC Project PMD TFA all-branches weekly meeting and drafts minutes for later use and reference.• Capture project progress process through DCS procedures and approval chains. • Follow-up, update, and report on DCS projects’ gating, approval dates, approval basis/purposes.• Monitor the DCS official generic mailbox and daily report on DSC projects, their service lines, approvals, and activities participation confirmation/refusals. • Train other team members and pass the knowledge, skills and expertise then quality control the results and provide advise and tips when needed.• Daily, biweekly, monthly reporting to management on project development.• Document, classify and archive DCS project’s documents, TFAs, Links, and official approvals. • Follow up and collect information on the projects’ technical resources with all their changes, allocations, teams and tasks allocations. • Process data using IBMs ETL tool, IBM InfoSphere, DataStage, SQL Server Relational data base concepts and design. Show less Project Management & Delivery Dept• Support financial operations and provide management support and services for the Federal Government's Cyber and IT Security (CITS) Projects.• Collect, classify and analyze project data to provide recommendations on outcomes, results, and progress criteria.• Capture project progress using monthly Earned Value reports, prepared in accordance with internal governance.• Collect, analyze and report on effort management pieces of evidence and statistics.• Conduct procurement for the acquisition of resources and goods in alignment with the project schedule and planned forecast.• Prepare Ad-Hoc financial & budget transactions.• Track & communicate project expenditures, actuals, and estimates to senior management with accuracy Show less

  • Strategy & Data Centre Services Projects Management Consultant

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Project Management & Delivery Consultant

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2020